QRI Meetup Amsterdam: The Coupling Kernels Revolution
Event Overview
Join us for a groundbreaking multidisciplinary gathering where researchers and artists explore the innovative 'Coupling Kernels' paradigm, a powerful new framework developed by the Qualia Research Institute for understanding psychedelic states.
The Framework Explained
Much like how sound waves resonate through an instrument, creating harmonious vibrations that affect its entire structure, psychedelics might work through a single fundamental mechanism that ripples through all neural systems. This framework helps explain why compounds like DMT and 5-MeO-DMT create distinct but internally consistent effects across our entire range of experience.
The key insight: psychedelics may modify the "rules of interaction" (coupling kernels) between neural systems throughout the body in a predictable and substance-specific way, creating cascading effects that produce the rich variety of psychedelic phenomena we observe. We'll explore how these coupling kernels might bridge subjective experience and neural mechanisms, including recent developments about how local neural responses are regulated by surrounding activity (cf. Divisive Normalization).
For a deeper understanding of this paradigm-shifting framework and visual demonstrations, read our detailed article and explore the epistemological paradigm the QRI is using to reverse engineer the mathematics of altered states of consciousness: heart.qri.org
Schedule
1:00 PM: Guest Arrival & Networking
2:00 PM: Mathematical Frameworks for Consciousness and Psychedelic States
Presentation by Andrés Gómez-Emilsson
3:00 PM: Q&A Session
3:30 PM: Latest Research on Divisive Normalization and Graph Neural Fields
Presentation by Marco Aqil
4:30 PM: Q&A Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Open Mic Introductions with Zeus Tipado (PsyDAO) ~5min each
Joel Dietz (MIT, MetaLambda)
Noah Clark (iAm)
Anyone attending in person
5:30 PM: Food Service
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: QRI Technology Demonstrations
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Social Hour / Networking
The presentations will be recorded and live streamed on the Cyberdelic Nexus Discord Server (no RSVP required for the stream).
Join the New QRI Discord server! - https://discord.gg/nKwfNAUK
(Note: there is the entry "barrier" of having to react to the welcome post with a custom emoji, as it says in the text - thanks to Silver and Taru for putting it together)
Featured Contributors
Qualia Research Institute Art
QRI Replication Toolkit (public release forthcoming)
Developed by Emil Hall, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Symmetric Vision, and Taru Hirvonen
by Taru Hirvonen
Psychedelic Effect Replications by The High Energy Awareness Research Team (HEART)
The Qualia Research Institute (QRI) is a non-profit research institute based in California, USA, dedicated to studying consciousness with a focus on altered states through rigorous mathematical frameworks. Donations to QRI are tax-deductible for US residents. To support our work, please visit QRI.org/donate.
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